Prohibition Party

The Prohibition Party is an American party, which occurs against the sale of alcohol and one of the advocates of the temperance movement was.

Although the party never was one of the leading political groupings in the U.S., they had in the late 19th century and early 20th century, huge impact. The party member Susanna M. Salter 1887 first in Argonia, Sumner County, Kansas female mayor the USA.

The party founded in 1867 and achieved some success in banning various types of alcohol, the most they recorded in 1919, when the 18th Amendment was passed to the United States Constitution, which ushered in the era of alcohol prohibition. This article prohibited the manufacture, transportation, sale and import and export of alcohol. The inclusion of the prohibition in the Constitution, the Prohibition Party had achieved its main goals and the absence of other political issues took their significance in the wake from. In public, the era of Prohibition, however, as a great time of organized crime, speakeasies, and smuggling ( "rum - running" and " bootlegging " ) was perceived. Upon entering the world economic crisis in 1929, the idea of Prohibition had already lost much of its popularity with the public and with the 21st Amendment to the Constitution of the United States, it was abolished in 1933. The Prohibition Party fell into political insignificance.

The party, which existed 1977-1980 under the name Statesman National Party, there are today. Since they each nominated a candidate presidential election since 1872, it is the third- oldest political party of the United States (after the Republicans and Democrats ). 2003, there was a factional dispute over the long-term party chairman Earl Dodge ( deceased in 2007 ).